Projíst se k minulosti: teoreticko-metodologická úvaha o vztahu jídla a paměti
Eat throught the Past: Theoretical and Methodological Essay about the Relations between Food and Memory

Summary/Abstract: The text deals with contact area and mutual inspirations of methodologies stemming from cultural anthropology and oral history. It summarizes recent international discussion about memory, body, and senses in social sciences and introduces few concepts (e.g. food as a language, food evoking memories, embodiment, synesthesia) that can be inspirational for current development of oral history methodology in the Czech conditions. Czech memory studies have been strongly based on textual analyses dealing with a written or spoken language. Through the topic of food and foodways, new ways of overcoming the textual and visual dominance in social sciences could be developed. Food is treated as a topic convenient for uncovering of various memory layers and representation of (silenced and neglected) histories of the everyday home food producers.

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